Tag: Housing market

Conflicting statements from Housing Minister! Stability or boom and bust?

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

5th January 2011, 15 years ago | 0

Grant Shapps recently revealed the government is looking at ways to take the heat out of the property market by...

My 2011 interest rate prediction

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd January 2011, 15 years ago | 4

From the heart, not a chart. I’m not really into fancy graphs, I don’t have a private school or university...

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Stubborn mortgage lenders hold property market hostage for profit

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th December 2010, 15 years ago | 6

Estate agents have slammed stubborn and self-serving mortgage lenders for holding homeowners and homebuyers hostage for the sake of their...

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Flood spending cuts leave homeowners high and dry

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

13th December 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Millions of homeowners and businesses may find buying buildings and contents insurance harder to obtain as a result of cuts...

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Rents set to keep on rising, say letting agents

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

3rd December 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Letting agents expect buy to let rents to keep edging higher as more tenants snap up the few available rental...

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Top 10 places where renting a home is cheaper than buying

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

A new rent survey based on the average cost of renting compared to buying a similar home on an interest...

Paragon plans to lend £1 billion to buy to let professionals

Author: Mark Alexander

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 1

Buy to let specialist lender Paragon Mortgages has announced a 32% rise in profits as the firm looks to reassert...

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Prices for a place in the country surge ahead of towns

Author: Mark Alexander

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors have seen prices for homes in rural areas outpace those in towns and cities for the past decade...

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British Bankers Association says bank mortgage lending has sunk to a 9 year low

Author: Mark Alexander

26th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

High street banks lent less on mortgages last month than at any time since February 2001, according to the British...

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It’s a buyer’s market for landlords with cash to invest

Author: Mark Alexander

24th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors may find the next few months an ideal time to buy reasonably priced property as buyer confidence slips...

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Reluctant landlords cashing in on buy to let bonanza

Author: Mark Alexander

17th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Letting agents all over the UK are reporting a rush by tenants to rent buy to let homes as the...

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House building slips to lowest level for a decade.

Author: Mark Alexander

12th November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Buy to let is likely to ride high for several years to come as the government reports house building in...

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Time to look at the brighter side of life.

Author: Mark Alexander

3rd November 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Most property investors think they have never had it so bad as spending cuts, lack of finance, and the prospect...

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House prices still up 8.3% on last year despite slowdown.

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

The latest house price surveys confirm what everyone already knows – house prices are stuck in a rut and mortgage...

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Landlords set to profit from generation of renters. Housing minister Grant Shapps has told the nation that Britain cannot afford another boom-and-bust house price explosion

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Property investors are witnessing a shift in the housing market that will affect people’s attitudes to buying and renting homes...

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Britain’s biggest private landlord banks on buying refurbs.

Author: Mark Alexander

28th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Britain’s largest private residential landlord is celebrating that the firm’s portfolio of 13,000 properties is outperforming the market. The £1.6...

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Mortgage lending remains sluggish for August. However, net lending secured on homes was up £1.7 billion, above the previous six-month average of £0.7 billion

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

The summer holidays hit mortgage approvals for August as the Bank of England revealed total loans to buy a home...

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House prices notch up 0.1% gain in September according to Nationwide

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

The first house price statistics for September have hit the streets – showing average prices have notched up just a...

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Who really cares if house prices fall? Are falling prices an opportunity or a threat and what actions should you be taking right now?

Author: Mark Alexander

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Switch on the TV or radio news, open the paper and log in to the internet and just about everyone...

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Birmingham Midshires to restrict lending to three buy to let mortgages per landlord. Lloyds squeeze this market further by refusing to lend on more than three buy to lets across all of their brands.

Author: Property118.com Landlord News Team

27th October 2010, 15 years ago | 0

Peter Curran, Head of Intermediary Distribution at Lloyds Banking Group recently announced, “From 25 September, buy to let property portfolios...